Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Like a virgin?
- Moon landings and Nazis.
- Enslaved people lived here.
- Stop saying breast milk is free.
- We’ve already had a gay First Lady.
- Finding the “men” in mental health.
- The phantom of the anatomy lecture.
- When Soviets tried to eliminate the plague.
- The disturbing resilience of scientific racism.
- 19th-century novels, with better birth control.
- The road to abortion is paved with bad bus routes.
- Did the Vatican hide art that shows female priests?
- Anthropologists hid African same-sex relationships.
- The false narratives of the fall of Rome mapped onto America.
- Why are menstruating women in India removing their wombs?
- Jane Addams, Mary Rozet Smith, and disappointment in the archive.
- Chronic pain, “beautiful suffering” and the endurance of Victorian stoicism.
Featured image caption: A condom with gay men and women lounging around an inner-city swimming pool with three smaller illustrations of other inner-city meeting venues for gay people; advertisement for safe sex and condoms by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.
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